EU’s updated cohesion policy to focus more on defence, energy

mennessä CrNet Oy | syys 22, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

The EU Parliament and Council agreed key updates to EU cohesion policy, enabling Europe’s states and regions to reallocate funds towards new strategic priorities, such as defence, sustainable housing, water resilience, and energy transition. The EU’s Cohesion Policy...

U.S. Faces Rising Death Toll from Wildfire Smoke, Study Finds

mennessä CrNet Oy | syys 19, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

Wildfires burning across Canada and the Western United States are spewing smoke over millions of Americans – the latest examples of ashy haze becoming a regular experience, with health impacts far greater than scientists previously estimated. Although wildfires have...

Ukraine braces for harsh winter as millions of people face cold and energy shortages

mennessä CrNet Oy | syys 19, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

Millions of people in Ukraine are facing cold and energy shortages as the country prepares for a fourth winter under fire. Since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of the eastern European country in 2022, crucial infrastructure has been destroyed or damaged and...

Women, older people, migrants and persons with disabilities are key to tackling EU skills and labour shortages

mennessä CrNet Oy | syys 17, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

Better integrating underrepresented groups – such as women, older people, migrants and persons with disabilities – into the job market can help to mitigate skills and labour shortages and offset the demographic changes that risk shrinking the EU’s workforce by...

UN’s humanitarian work is ‘underfunded, overstretched, and under attack’

mennessä CrNet Oy | syys 16, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development

“Underfunded, overstretched and under attack” is how the United Nation’s top aid official has referred to the UN and the support it is providing to the humanitarian sector. Speaking on Monday to journalists at UN Headquarters in New York, Tom Fletcher, who heads up...

Joint statement by High Representative Kallas, Executive Vice-President Virkkunen and Commissioner McGrath on the International Day of Democracy

mennessä CrNet Oy | syys 16, 2025 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development, Yleinen

On monday, on International Day of Democracy, we reaffirm the vital importance of upholding democratic principles, human rights and the Rule of Law, acknowledging that they are more important than ever and underpin the fabric of our societies. Democracy faces...